Searching for Savanna : the murder of one Native American woman and the violence against the many Cover Image

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Searching for Savanna : the murder of one Native American woman and the violence against the many / Mona Gable.

ISBN: 9781982153687
ISBN: 1982153687
Physical Description: xiv, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2023.
Copyright: &copy;2023

Summary:

"In the summer of 2017, twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind vanished. A week after she disappeared, police arrested the white couple who lived upstairs from Savanna and emerged from their apartment carrying an infant girl. The baby was Savanna's, but Savanna's body would not be found for days. The horrifying crime sent shock waves far beyond Fargo, North Dakota, where it occurred, and helped expose the sexual and physical violence Native American women and girls have endured since the country's colonization. With pathos and compassion, Searching for Savanna confronts this history of dehumanization toward Indigenous women and the government's complicity in the crisis. Featuring in-depth interviews, personal accounts, and trial analysis, Searching for Savanna investigates these injustices and the decades-long struggle by Native American advocates for meaningful change."-- Amazon.com